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The author explores the hybridity of the 'the collaborative life story and its close relative, testimonial writing' which occupies a position between ''literature and various modes of factual writing ... and between private and public, or political, discourse.' She sees it as a genre 'frequently troubled by generic, ethical and political dilemmas, especially in the case of cross-cultural collaboration' (p.66) However, her reading of Chinese-Australian texts demonstates that 'the cultural negotiation embodied by the cross-cultural life story offers a unique opportunity to observe the production of autobiographical "truth" in the interplay between generic expectation and textual variation.' (p.78)
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Of Dragons and Devils : Chinese-Australian Life Stories
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Subjects:
- The Year the Dragon Came 1996 selected work interview
- Dragon Seed in the Antipodes : Chinese-Australian Autobiographies 2001 single work criticism
- Astronauts, Lost Souls & Dragons : Voices of Today's Chinese Australians 1997 single work interview
- East Wind, West Wind 1992 single work autobiography
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